parking problems

[waters4715]

i live in a road of terraced houses and opposite me is a hill. the people who live on the hill keep parking their cars outside our houses even thou there is empty space outside their properties. basically they don't want to park on a hill. this causes us to have to park a distance away from our homes. is there anything legally we can do?

[jack daniels]

Have a read on this - it'll help


http://www.kirklees.g...nstreet-parking.shtml

[tamborine]

you dont own the road, so anyone can park in front of your house......unless - you have 'resident permits'.

Apply for 'resident permit only' in your road to solve the problem.

[bednobs]

owning a house dosent mean you own the piece of road outside, the is probably nothing you can do

[Tim123]

Don't go for residents only parking. You will be charged a huge annual fee for your permit, you will be charged whenever anyone visits you and wants to park near your house, and the houses up the hill will probably be made part of the same scheme, so you won't gain anything.

My only advice is to start saving up for a house with off street parking.

[Androcles]

Go and park outside their houses and leave your car there all the time. Hopefully, they will be as annoyed as you at people parking outside their house and rush to try and park there to stop you doing it. A beat up old transit van works wonders, with garish paint on the side

[flip_flop]

I and my neighbours did something similar once Androcles. I use to live in a cul-de-sac of 7 houses and one guy used to insist on parking his car on the road and not on his drive, and if any of the other neighbours or their visitors managed to park in front of his house when his car wasn't there, upon his return he used to go to the house of the car owner, and if it was a visitors car, would go from house to house until he found out which house was being visited.

He used to get most upset.

Now, obviously, everybody pretty much always told him to eff off, but after a while his constant moaning got up everybody's noses.

So, I and the other neighbours clubbed together and bought an old banger, taxed it, insured it and MOT'd it, and when this guy went out one day, we parked it in front of his house and left it there for months. He didn't know it was us and, because the car was pefectly legal and legally parked, there was aboslutely nothing he could do about it.

Within six months his house was up for sale.

Granted it all sounds a bit petty.......but we all got an enormous amount of satisfaction out of it.

[36TEAK36]

I would go for the resident parking if possible. We had a similar situation a couple of years ago where people were parking outside my house and walking to work in the nearby town centre, which meant their cars were left there all day.

The residents finally persuaded the local council to operate a residents only parking scheme. I pay an annual fee of £65 for a total of 2 cars, which I consider a reasonable fee. We can also purchase a book of parking scratch cards for visitors, which costs another £5 per year.

[Twenty20]

I dont understand why people think they have a right to park outside their own house. You dont. Park where there's a space.